Ricky Gervais On His University Days | Politics | Universal Comedy

He went to the same

university

as me, University College London, and I think that was where I got away from

politics

because I've been interested in it all my life, in particular, becoming politicized in the sixth form. and talk about communism and stuff and uh I do things like I used to sell Anti-Nazi League badges and collect for the miners because it was loud mainly um and I even had that Che Guevara poster on the wall of my house to annoy my mom. It backfired, she thought I was Robert Lindsay and then when I got to college there were people better than me at it, I mean there are people who really meant it and I was thinking, oh God, I liked?

I will give an example. I did philosophy. and after a few weeks you had to choose your options for the three years and the required subjects were logic and Greek philosophy and you had to choose another six and I chose philosophy of science philosophy of mind morality um and there was a Marxism option and I thought which would be great I've always been interested in that and I will do it and it was only a small department 25 people and the tutors ruled out and you had to stand in line and mark what you wanted and I looked at the Marxism queue and there were 10 people in this queue, three of They were uncovered and I thought, God, I can't spend three years in a room with what I used to call at the time the first load I ever saw. connected was the opposite of that, he was a big lumbering chemist called Pete Bront, yeah, and I think he was like the first person I met and he lived literally across the hall from me at Evans Hall on Camden and 18th like the rest of us , but the mind of a 55-year-old fascist taxi driver, I mean, like society is going to hell and, oh God, all the things I could do if I was in charge of that kind of thing and I remember there was a announcement at Strongbow time and at the end of the announcement two arrows were shot with a long bow and they went and split the wood on a bar that the horn gave him the announcement because he imagined executing robbers and rapists like that and he came he stayed silent and looked at him Like, oh, and then as I go, oh, that was in my head and I also used it to exercise demons while I was walking down the street and it was like the early '80s, so if I saw something on the other side, like some guy with long hair and makeup or something, I would just look at him and say, "oh, can you imagine how one time we were walking home from college and they used to come in every day and buy their evening standard." It was a little kiosk, I don't know if it's still there, but it was just two stacks of standards and a little old lady selling them and he went that particular day, bought his 10p standard and that's what the cover story looked like That day there was a big picture of a pensioner who had been mugged and there was a picture of her with cuts and boots, a horrible story and the old lady, uh, she was just chatting, she probably told it to everyone who came that day.

He went to pee horrible, didn't he? and he said yes, yes, she's 93. scarred for life, but you let her, right? Pete turned out fine, it's not a scar for life, so it's what you scar a baby for life, no. You know, if she lives to be 100, she's only had scars for seven percent of her life, he did the math for her, like this old lady is destined to be gone, yeah, you're right, but

politics

starts at a young age you don't go to.

university

to be exposed to politics, I think it starts from the year, you don't know, it's in little sayings and songs, children's songs, fables, they are loaded with morality for children and I remember that I must have been only six or seven years old because it was a nursery school and um, on the first Monday of every month, the vice principal used to tell a fable in the assembly and it was his best day.

Well now I used to make it last between half an hour and 40 minutes and I thought Peter was used to it enough and looking back I think all the other teachers are going to look at that asshole showing off to six year olds they also take off his shoes yeah and What will I say to someone who told a fable, okay, it was a fable about the two mice, the lazy mouse and the hard-working mouse, throughout the summer there were many berries on the trees, the sun was shining, it was lovely and warm, the lazy mouse I ate berries from the tree, took a bite and threw it in the trash, there were a lot at the same time.

Hardworking mouse, sure he would have a berry, but he did everything we need to save one too Lazy mouse, ah, forget it, oh, just eating berries running around, okay, hardworking mouse, whatever I said, you know what What you should know, look forward to winter. because those berries won't be, I'll take them off your square, you know, I've adapted it well, so anyway you get the idea, so all summer long it's easy to embarrass him, he's running around someone and then, um, mice workers, uh, he's busy, he's eating, very collecting. berries by freeze-drying them um chopping wood um with a small ax that's made from a twig and a small chip of flint and you tie it with a piece of horse hair to make it easier for you to store wood for a much colder climate. season has a fire right now it's just it's too hot just laying there but when winter comes burn the wood make a fire um so last summer so it's a pretty long story.

I'm making it last longer than him maybe during it works out well, so in the fall the same pattern arrives. The lazy mouse is just about eating the last berries, right. Hardworking mouse, picking the last berries, has too much wood, if you like, in my opinion, but that's the way it is. She's not going to run out of things in the back she's probably down, she doesn't know what she's doing but she's doing her best and the lazy mouse is just laughing, he loves everything, I mean he's just kicking the leaves under the leaves, you can't see it because it's too cool, but you can see the leaves moving like this, you go, I can't say it's just a lazy mouse, you can't, but that's what's happening.

I don't think it's a ghost or something, or is it just if you could go in there like with a really loud text or you know, on the Discovery Channel I go, you'd probably see the lazy mouse walking around and winter comes, the ground is cold and hard. , there are no berries on the trees anymore, it's very cold, okay, the sloth? The mouse is out there playing, he can't find anything that the industrious Mouse is in his hut that he has built with only scraps and tips, a roaring twig, a fire pipe, a rocking chair or a pebble, just a pebble, something modern and they don't hibernate?

This is nonsense, isn't it? These mice didn't do it anyway so he's there and there's a knock on the door and he thinks who is he so he walks over to The Little Door's obviously pretty cool little knob what do you want? It's obvious what he wants. It's um and he says oh I want it's cold and I'm hungry and there's definitely smoke right now but that's not my Pawn Mac, he's fine, he's doing fine, I warned you, right? Yeah, it doesn't matter, he comes in and shares with me where he is. the moral there, what is the moral of that queue?

Do whatever you want and then find a terrible lesson for the children. Most of the kids in my class continued like this. He also told the story of the boy who cried to the wolf, a boy. taking care of your sheep gets a little boring, it's boring just make sure you'll probably get tired too because if you count it you'll probably get a little sleepy, right? So he gets a little guy here nothing to do here in the Bible anyway a long time ago and he says um uh it was just a Monday that's the worst day and he's just bored and he says I know what I'll laugh and he says uh wolf wolf and he comes out the towns goes where the wolf is very good now there is no wolf he leaves oh yes oh so the next day things without work for the tree I will do it again wolf goes wolf where is the wolf this time not yet There is a wolf oh yes oh third day there?

He's really a wolf and he says woof woof woof but the villagers don't come because they don't believe him and they told us that the moral of that is never tell a lie no, it's not the moral of that is never tell a lie The same lie, twice terrible lesson for children.